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GOOD NEWSKodjo Adabra (GTA, French) and Amevi Bocco (GTA, French) will both be presenting in Toronto, Canada, next March at the 20th & 21st Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium on the topics "Le mythe d'hégémonie du français dans l'espace linguistique francophone africain : approches innovatrices modernes contre une glottophagie conceptuelle pour une Afrique affranchie." (Adabra) and "Rapports de forces espaces-personnages dans 'Une saison au Congo' et 'Combat de nègre et de chiens' d'Aimé Césaire et de Bernard-Marie Koltès: deux auteurs, une histoire logique d'un continent?" (Bocco). Stephen Blackwell's (Russian) new book, The Quill and the Scalpel, was an Editors' Pick for September at Hawk & Whippoorwill, the journal of the Boston Poetry Union: http://bostonpoetry.com/hw/recommendedreading.html. In addition, he was recently recognized as QUEST Scholar of the Week. Harriet Wood Bowden (Spanish) has been awarded a Chancellor's Grant for Faculty Research. She will receive a one-course release in Spring 2010 in order to write external grant proposals for her research. She also had a paper accepted in the journal Language Learning, to be published in March. The title of the article is "Verbal Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2 Spanish: A Frequency Effects Study Examining Storage versus Composition". Flavia Brizio (Italian) recently organized a series of lectures by visiting scholar Professor Nando Fasce, a historian from the University of Genoa, thanks to a grant from Ready for the World. Professor Fasce spoke on the following topics: "Advertising, Public Relations, and Political Communication in the U.S. since the WWII. A Transatlantic Perspective," "Coming to the U.S.: Men, Women, and Labor across the Atlantic in the Age of Mass Migration," and "Singing in the Shop. The Workplace, Italian Migrants, and Music in the U.S. in the Epoch of WWI." Dawn Duke (Spanish and Portuguese) was invited to participate in the 16th Annual Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, funded by the Southern Regional Education Boards SREB, October 22-25, Arlington VA. Millie Gimmel (Spanish) has received the University Studies Award for outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary scholarship. She has also been invited to give a paper at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Association conference in February. Russian and Philosophy major Zach Hicks (class of 2010) will present his paper "Things That Cannot Be Said: Intersections of Wittgenstein and Nabokov" at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 next February. Emily Pace (GTA, French) presented "Point of Contact: Malraux, the Museum, and Man's Fate," at the Arts of the Present conference, October 22-25, in Knoxville. HoLa Hora Latina awarded a Unity in the Community Award to Ana Luisa Salinas, Margarita Yong, and the University at large. They organized a "Meet the Authors" to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Speakers included MFLL faculty: Harriet Wood Bowden on "Individual Differences: Age, Sex, Working Memory, and Prior Knowledge" and Dawn Duke on "Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment. Toward a Legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Women Writers." UPCOMING AND ONGOING EVENTS
"Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr: Muslim Women and Headscarves in Contemporary Germany" The Italian Table meets Tuesday nights at the I House from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. FROM THE LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER (LRC)
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